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Carob

noun

Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute. Synonyms: algarroba, algarroba bean, carob bean, locust bean, locust pod.

Evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob. Synonyms: algarroba, carob bean tree, carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua.

Powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute. Synonyms: carob powder, Saint-John's-bread.

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"Carob" Quotes from Famous Books

... of what species of tree was before us. I had seen it before. I knew it was the honey-locust, or thorny acacia,—the carob-tree of the East, and the famed ...

— The Desert Home - The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... in, that Brahmani bull and villager's cow, nightly jackal and thoughtless youth, might not intrude, he planted with trees then rare or unknown in lower Bengal, the mahogany and deodar, the teak and tamarind, the carob and eucalyptus. The fine American Mahogany has so thriven that the present writer was able, seventy years after the trees had been planted, to supply Government with plentiful seed. The trees of the park were so placed as to form a noble avenue, which long shaded the press and ...

— The Life of William Carey • George Smith

Words linked to "Carob" : foodstuff, bean tree, bean, food product, genus Ceratonia, Ceratonia